Pewter oil lamp with single brass; wide tube and bell-shaped well on saucer with ring handle.
oil lamps
brass (alloy)
casting (process)
pewter (tin alloy)
tin alloy
Pewter
Brass
Cast
Lamp, Oil
Handwritten on jelly labels on the underside is: ""Smith and Company/ Boston/ 1847-1849"" On the bottom underside there is also a maker's mark which reads: ""B.K. Little""
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Lawrence B. Smith Co. (Maker)
Boston, MA, USA
4 x 4 1/2 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1992.420
Massachusetts (United States)
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